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A Kapiti courier business contracted to CourierPost and its sole director have been ordered to pay more than $37,000 for multiple breaches of employment law.

Dhanoa Transport Limited and Arvinder Singh Dhanoa were penalised $12,000 and $4,000 respectively, and ordered to pay employees $21,640 in wage arrears by the Employment Relations Authority, following a Labour Inspectorate investigation.

The investigation uncovered 31 breaches of the Employment Relations Act, including failure to pay four employees minimum wages, failure to keep wage and time records for five employees, failure to correctly calculate and pay annual holiday pay for five employees and failure to provide valid individual employment agreements for six employees.

"Finding such poor practices connected to a well-known brand, like CourierPost, raises questions about the quality of their systems," said Labour Inspectorate regional manager Kevin Finnegan.